Teachers’ Politeness Markers in Request in Classroom Interactions

Hieronimus Canggung Darong,Yazid Basthomi,A Effendi Kadarisman

doi:10.15642/nobel.2020.11.2.217-233

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https://doi.org/10.15642/nobel.2020.11.2.217-233

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Abstract

This study is an attempt to examine politeness markers employed by Indonesian English teachers in classroom interactions. Purposefully chosen English teachers were observed, audio-recorded, and analyzed by using the politeness principle and Gricean cooperative principle. The conversation analysis revealed that to mitigate the illocutionary act of request, aside from using internal modifiers at most (consultative device, politeness markers, hesitators, hedges, play-downs, committers, down-toners, understaters), the teachers also used external devices as an adjunct to the head acts (grounder, sweetener, and disarmer). Besides, teachers intentionally violated the maxim for the sake of extending the talk. Further research needs to include more participants and instruments in a wider area of analysis.

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Politeness is a generic term in which linguistic rules are applied in real communication.In terms of its coverage, politeness is regarded as a linguistic expression of saving someone's face during communication
The following table is the distribution of politeness markers used as internal modifiers by instructors or teachers (House and Kasper 1981; Blum-Kulka and Olshtain's, 1984)
The overall data of the present study shows the use of politeness markers and maxim principles in producing speech acts of request

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In terms of its coverage, politeness is regarded as a linguistic expression of saving someone's face during communication. This expression, is very dependent in a way that demonstrates the reflection and awareness of people and or culture where it belongs to. In this regard, one might be considered being polite but not certainly for other people. One might be considered being polite but not certainly for other people This is varied among cultures, the basic function is still similar in terms of underlining the message being conveyed during communication. Politeness is associated with the rules of language, which are differently contextualized in the mind of language users and in the culture

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